House of Horrors - The Turpin 13

House of Horrors: The Turpin 13
It was 5AM on an early Sunday morning.  Jordan Turpin was wide awake.  She was terrified and she could feel her entire body trembling in fear.  She had spent the last two years developing an incredible escape plan with her oldest sister, Jennifer.  If you guessed she was planning to escape a kidnapping or an abduction, you’d be completely wrong.  Jordan, along with her other 12 siblings were being held by their very own parents.  For almost 30 years David and Louise Turpin had systematically tortured, neglected and abused their 13 children to a point where they were under-developed, malnourished and uneducated..  
The smell of rot and excrement filled the small house.  The home was barely over 2,000 square feet, but was covered in trash and garbage.  The 13 children shared one small bathroom, where they were allowed to shower once annually and could wash their hands, only to the wrist.  Anything beyond that was considered “playing with the water” and punishable by being chained to the bed.  Tonight, in the quiet of the house, two of her sisters were crying.  One child had been chained for stealing Mother’s candy and another for calling their mother, “The Devil”, saying she was “Worse than the Devil”.  One of Jordan’s three brothers was also chained and had been for several weeks.  His crime was the stealing of food.  All the children were in a state of starvation.
Jennifer had tried to run away when the family lived in Texas, she may have been somewhere around Jordan’s age at the time, but the plot had failed.  She had been unceremoniously returned to the horror that was her home.  She had heard talk between their mother and father about the family moving again.  They would be moving to Oklahoma in the morning.  They had already announced that everyone was getting chained for the move.  Jennifer knew that this new development would ruin their two years of planning.  Something had to be done now.
Jennifer tore a page out of one of her journals and drew a quick rudimentary map from memory.  She hadn’t spent much time outside of the house, but she drew what she could remember.  Jordan and another sister made a call to a Taxi company on the cell phone they had secreted away, to see what it would cost to be taken to Nevada
Jordan could hear the crying of her two sisters who had been chained up.  She recalled a television show called “Cops” and her plan pivoted.  She would go out and call 911 and alert the police to the abuse.  She would find a way to convince them to help her.  Jennifer reminded her to take pictures of her sisters chained up for proof and so Jordan quietly asked the two sisters if she could take pictures of them.  They quickly agreed and Jordan snapped a few photos.  She put a few pillows in the bed to make it look as if she were asleep and changed into clean clothes..
Jordan climbed up on the window sill and dropped down.  Her heart was pounding in her chest.  The cold January air was chilling even through the clothes she wore, but she didn’t feel the cold.  She began walking North and then circled back and walked South towards a dead end.  She didn’t know the way out of the neighborhood.  The small map her sister gave her was scrunched in her small hands.
Another sister climbs out and drops down and runs to catch up with Jordan, not knowing that she had gone the opposite direction.  Not finding her, she returns to the home, afraid and confused.  
Jordan struggles to dial 911, her hands trembling from fear. She stands in the street, not knowing she should be walking on the sidewalk and that she shouldn’t be standing in the road.
Jordan Elizabeth Turpin ran away trying to save her 12 siblings from a horror houseJanuary 14th 2018 at 5:49AM Sunday morning in Perris CA  Jordan climbed out of a window of her house on the